"We will always appreciate you as a friend of Cuba, and we will appreciate all the work you did as Ambassador in these years, favoring the relations between our peoples, between our governments."
So said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to Dr. Akram Mohammad Samhan, ambassador of the State of Palestine in the largest of the Antilles.
Receiving the diplomat on Wednesday, who concludes his mission on the island, the Head of State said that these years have been "a difficult stage," marked by the brutal genocide committed against the people of Palestine, who will always be able to count on Cuba.
The Ambassador thanked the dignitary, and said that it has been an honor to be here, "representing the Palestinian people, their cause, their struggle," and affirmed that in the Caribbean nation he has had friends, he has had people who have supported him and that he has been the expression of the "solidarity that the Cuban people and the Cuban leadership have in favor of the cause of our people."
He also thanked for making it possible for hundreds of young Palestinians to study in the archipelago. "They will always have that support," Diaz-Canel assured.
Currently, about 250 Palestinians are studying here, between undergraduate and postgraduate, and according to the meeting, Cuba offered another 200 places for the coming years.
